Fall 2018
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Andrea Slovakova – Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Immigration and memories of home are the two main themes of this year‘s edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Festival, says festival programmer Andrea Slovakova.
The mirage of utopia
An essay-documentary meditating on future visions and utopias holds a dark heart given the current state of our society.
The iconic Glock
Despite a somewhat sprawled narrative, this collection of stories around the gun named Glock is worth your attention.
The apocalyptic face of capitalism
The shocking reality of Ghana’s electronic waste dump Sodom reveals the truth about our unending need for the newer and better in Western consumerism.
Down the fake news rabbit hole
A new documentary examines the Trump campaign and the breadth of the influence of «fake news» exclusively through the eyes of Russian media sources.
Laila, mother of the addicts
DRUGS: Laila at the Bridge takes the viewer on a harrowing journey to Kabul’s dark underpass, following a woman who attempts to save as many drug addicts as she can.
An extremist self-portrait
How do you opt out of a community that expects life-long allegiance and responds to dissenters with brutal retributions? In Exit, Karen Winther depicts the hazardous struggle for liberation.
A changing Chinese society
Up the Mountain is a portrait how the shedding of the old is making way for the new in today‘s China.
Cinematic portrait painting of today’s China
Award-winning film director Wang Xiaoshuai returns to his home country, capturing an eclectic portrait of modern China.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z at the Louvre
The Carters’ cry, «I can’t believe we made it» is not just a plain, joyful celebration of their success – it is also an acknowledgment that beyond personal success, there are other victories to be won.
40 years of oblivion
What kind of a rule is maintained through violence, torture, murder, secrecy and institutionalised silence?